Free Soul Food Recipe Sites Appealing More To Health ConsciousConsumers

Author: Roy Primm

Free soul food recipe websites are slowly appealing to a youngercrowd. This new market is not only younger but more healthconscious than traditional southern food lovers of the past. Theyounger crowd loves the taste and satisfaction of traditionalsouthern dishes, but without the heavy feeling afterwards. Thisresults from the heavy ingredients and often the cooking oilscontained in traditional soul food recipes.To adapt to the taste and demands of younger consumers morerecipe publishers, dining establishments and manufacturers arecooking lighter. For example, many now include lighteringredients in their menus and recipes. For example, most havechange from cooking with animal fats to peanut, olive, andsesame oils. Less red meat and pork dishes are served in soulfood restaurants and more chicken, turkey and cold water fishsuch as salmon, cod and haddock have been added to the menu.To flavor the dishes, healthier and lighter sauces is offeredalong with natural herbs and spices. Most free soul food recipewebsites, cookbooks and restaurants continue to phase outtraditional flavorings such as ham hocks, fatback and bacondrippings. These seasonings don't have the same appeal to theyounger health conscious consumer as it does to the older crowd.These changes continue to help bring back many older consumersas well, those who had to avoid eating soul food cooking forhealth reasons. Much of the traditional southern cookingcontained high amounts of sodium, calories and fat. This oftencaused high blood pressure, obesity and other health ailments.Now that more soul food recipes have included the desires anddemands of the health conscious crowd, the southern cuisinecontinues to experience a strong comeback. New phrases have evenemerged to describe this new movement and have spawned a wholenew market. Healthy soul food has come to describe southerncuisine with healthy ingredients, cooking methods or even rawfood dining. For example, you'll find more green vegetables, rawfruits and bean dishes included in the menus than ever before.Of course you'll also find all natural herbs and spices as wellas citrus marinades to add flavor to chicken, fish or otherlight and lean meats.Vegetarian soul food is also a new kid on the block that'sappealing to the young, hip (and young at heart) and healthconscious crowd. These meat-less southern inspired dishescontinues to win new fans, the evidence is the large numbers ofbooks published and new restaurant openings. There's even talkof many of these restaurants planning to franchise in the nearfuture.About the author:See The Top 20 Soul Food Recipes Voted By Readers Go To ... http://blackhomeownernews.com/soulfoodrecipes.html">FreeSoul Food Recipes